Pakistan faces international flak over jailed ex-PM Imran Khan’s eye condition, bolstered by cricket heroes’ letters to Shehbaz Sharif. Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi fired back in Lahore Tuesday, pinning the blame for delayed medical reviews on Khan’s sister Alima Khan during a charged media briefing.
ARY News reported Naqvi’s account of Adiala Jail consultations uniting doctors, Khan’s team, and PTI voices. Consensus rang clear—treatment exemplary, tests exhaustive, PTI poised to affirm publicly.
No further exams needed, confirmed the experts. Naqvi then targeted Alima: ‘She warned her party against endorsing reports, lest the fuss subside. Her interference halted checkups for three days.’
Per Dawn, Naqvi decried duplicity: ‘Proximity preached, politics practiced.’ Alima’s veto derailed early agreements from amenable leaders, he claimed.
The flashpoint: Government’s PIMS transfer announcement for minor intervention, now backed by Supreme Court-verified Central Retinal Vein Occlusion. Naqvi accused PTI of scheming to leverage the crisis politically. With health at stake and optics strained, Naqvi’s expose signals fraying PTI unity and tests government resolve in managing high-profile detainees.